On Sunday, 10 February 2019 at 02:12:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Saturday, February 9, 2019 2:19:27 PM MST Victor Porton via
Digitalmars- d-learn wrote:
ISO C++ specifies that the C++ file must end with a newline.
Should D file end with newline, too?
No, there is no need to end D files with a newline. I would
guess that the vast majority of D files end with a closing
brace. I just looked at a bunch of files in the standard
library for the heck of it, and almost all of the ones I looked
at ended with a closing brace. And those that didn't ended with
something like an enum declaration and not a newline.
Personally, I don't leave newlines at the end of files, because
it looks messy. I don't even recall doing that in C++, though I
do recall that there supposedly be a rule about it. It seems
like a pretty bizarre requirement to me, but regardless, I'm
quite sure that D does not have that requirement.
- Jonathan M Davis
Doing a quick a quick tail on all the source files for dmd,
druntime and phobos, I only found 6 source files that ended in a
curly brace and 2 ending in a 'g'. All others ended with a
newline. Its certainly not required but it is common in the style
guides I've seen and I personally have my editor automatically
insert a newline.
